I didn't just read the article, I unread it.
Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
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Re: Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
#12Well argued rebuttal of Apple's claim about Samsung copying its tablet design. Although I disagree on color. Before the iPhone, and after, electronic devices have been all sorts of color. For example, the Kindle debuted in off white. Moto Razrs came in pink. Black is not the only logical solution. As the Nokia Lumia 800 has shown, there is still a lot of room for design in smartphones that don't resemble the iPhone a…
Black, white, and 50% grey do seem to be the attractors.
Re: Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
#13The author invested quite some time to make his point, however, I disagree. First of all, if this is the only possible way for a tablet to look, why did all the other Microsoft tablets up to the iPad look vastly different? Second, there're two famuos quotes: "The obvious is always least understood." and "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei The…
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Re: Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
#14It is not so simple. Tablet computers before the iPad did not look anything like the iPad:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/18/tablet-design-before-after-th...
in hindsight, it seems like the only completely obvious way to design a tablet, but that fact in itself is the mark of great design.
Re: Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
#15This would be a lot more believable if all of the Tablets that came before the iPad also looked identical to the iPad and Samsung devices.
They didn't: http://twitpic.com/67ykpa
Re: Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
#16Well argued rebuttal of Apple's claim about Samsung copying its tablet design. Although I disagree on color. Before the iPhone, and after, electronic devices have been all sorts of color. For example, the Kindle debuted in off white. Moto Razrs came in pink. Black is not the only logical solution. As the Nokia Lumia 800 has shown, there is still a lot of room for design in smartphones that don't resemble the iPhone a…
Yeah, that point was dubious, at best.I have a white iPhone and you can, in fact, get a frickin' iPad that's not black.
Re: Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
#17I'll just leave this here for everyone saying that iPad-like designs never existed before the iPad:
http://gdeluxe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/20111004-03455...
Re: Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
#18Well argued rebuttal of Apple's claim about Samsung copying its tablet design. Although I disagree on color. Before the iPhone, and after, electronic devices have been all sorts of color. For example, the Kindle debuted in off white. Moto Razrs came in pink. Black is not the only logical solution. As the Nokia Lumia 800 has shown, there is still a lot of room for design in smartphones that don't resemble the iPhone a…
There is probably a reason why most TVs come in black - it makes the colors and the picture to stand out more.
Go and take a look at the flat-screen TV section of any electronics store. All of them look pretty much alike, and actually also very much like iPad. The main difference is size, and iPad's rounded corners which are nicer to have in a device that you hold in your hands.
You can even compare Nokia's circa 2005 Internet Tablet, the 770 with an iPad. Same black color, bottom corners are rounded. Sure, it still has some more buttons and a resistive screen, but it even came with a "smart cover" (turn the hard cover around, and the magnets in it will put the device to sleep) http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/4554791832/
Re: Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
#19By those standards Apple ripped off 50% of the UMPCs ever made along with quite a few tablet PCs and PDAs.
(Cue poorly-drawn comic of Bill Gates hurling a TC1100 through Apple's front window.)
Re: Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
#20I'll just leave this here for everyone saying that iPad-like designs never existed before the iPad: http://gdeluxe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/20111004-03455...
There's plenty of use of the color black, rectangular shapes, rounded corners, and centered screens in the "before iPad" group.